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De-cluttering Your Feed Reader

By Marcia Francois

I have two gmail accounts - don't ask, it's a long story - and what I've been doing is using the one as my main Google Reader account and the other for some blogs I wanted to keep track of, but they don't post regularly so those posts can pile up.

I've been subscribing like crazy to both my Google Reader accounts so they're getting out of hand and it's not uncommon for me to find 81 items unread, which is unusual for me.

Account 1
Started with 42 feeds
Removed 7 but added 10 more (!)
Left with 45

Account 2
Started with 19 feeds
Removed 12
Left with 7

Total: left with 52 blogs in total (although some of them are new so probably will go if I don't enjoy reading them)

That's a bit hectic because my comfort level is around 40 ;)

How many blogs do you read?


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Today's organising challenge
Declutter some blogs you're just not getting around to and tell me how many in the comments.

Posted November 25, 2008, filed in It's That Time, Clutter Control Products, Organizeit Projects, Less is More, Clutter Hacks

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From Jeri Dansky, November 25 2008

I'm subscribed to 154 blogs at the minute. On average, I read 55 posts/day - it varies a lot. That's MUCH less than the 400 or so showing up in my reader every weekday (and 125 or so on weekend days).

That's one joy of using the reader - I can quickly skim a blog like Apartment Therapy, which posts a LOT, and pick the handful of posts that interest me.

I subscribe to very few blogs which don't publish full feeds - with the amount of reading I do, it's too annoying to not have the full feed in the reader. If the post really interests me, I'll still go to the web site to read comments, and to bookmark the post.

And yes, I do prune my subscription list, besides adding to it.

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